RASC News Agency: Sources in Bamyan province say that poverty and hunger forced a Bamyani family to sell their three-month-old baby.
Sources told the media on Saturday, September 23, that a family in Pitab Laghman village of Bamyan provincial center sold their three-month-old baby for 30,000 Kabuli/Afghani rupees.
The mother of this family said in an interview with some media; we had no bread to eat and we sold my infant to save the lives of our other three children from starvation.
According to the sources of this family, they have done this while the humanitarian aid in this province has not reached the very needy and is being abused by the Taliban group.
The sources added that while nearly 30 domestic and international aid organizations are active in this province, but a few steps away from the aid organizations and the Taliban group, a family with their children was hungry for several days and finally, out of necessity, they sold their infant to stay for a few days.
Meanwhile, some sources from Pitab Laghman village have claimed that after this incident, Taliban forces have arrested the family who sold their child due to poverty along with a reporter.
One of the civil activists of Bamyan also says; the distribution of humanitarian aid is not transparent for any of the relief organizations in Bamyan. He claimed; the small amount of humanitarian aid in Bamyan reaches the real needy, but the actual aid is misappropriated by the local officials of the Taliban group and the employees of aid agencies.
According to this civil activist; Mullah Ziaullah Khadim, head of rural development, Mawlawi Abdul Rawuf Rohani, deputy of intelligence, Mawlawi Mohammad Ibrahim Taib, head of intelligence, Abdullah Ayubi, head of urban security of intelligence, Mohammad Khan Ghazi, brother of the Taliban governor for Bamyan, and also Mullah Mohammad Harun Shaker, head of Bamyan economy, are among the people who are members which take bribe and tribute from aid organizations.
It should be mentioned that some citizens of Bamiani also accuse the relief agencies of unfair distribution of humanitarian aid and lack of accurate survey of deprived families.
